[Pictured left to right: Bryce Mullican, Richard A. Sun and Herbert Brown] With great sadness, the board of directors of Mississippi Coding Academies acknowledges the passing of our co-founder, Richard A. Sun. Rich was a founding member of the team that built MCA and Mississippi CodeWorks from ambitious ideas to an engine of change in […]
Mississippi Coding Academies was named one of the Top Non-profits in Mississippi for 2021 by the Mississippi Business Journal. It was an honor to have the opportunity to highlight the Coding Academies’ achievements to key sponsors, the audience, and our guests at the awards program held at the Old Capitol on Thursday, December 16th. The […]
Mississippi Coding Academies is grateful to Roslyn Anderson and WLBT for the excellent coverage of graduate veteran Herman Cotten and our COMCAST Veterans Program. Herman Cotten was one of the first Veterans to join the program in 2019 and has created two mobile apps. Kidzamm, a children’s app designed to teach the importance of reading […]
Over 80 Mississippians have begun their 11-month, tuition-free journey to becoming junior coders at the Mississippi Coding Academies via four different locations in the state. Nearly 50 coders have gotten started at two Jackson-area locations—downtown and the new South Jackson location. About 30 more have started on the Gulf Coast and in the Golden Triangle […]
We are pleased to announce that we have added Willie Jones and Eric Hill to the Mississippi Coding Academies Board of Directors this spring. President of the DSC Training Academy with 30 years of experience in workforce development Wille Jones is determined to create diversity in the job market and serve the needs of women […]
The Mississippi Coding Academies board of directors is pleased to announce that enrollment is now open for a Gulf Coast-based cohort of coding students to begin classes in August 2021. The University of Southern Mississippi directly supports the new campus, which is already gaining interest from employers in the region. “We’re excited to get this […]
[Jackson, Miss.] Mississippi Coding Academies and DSC Training Academy are pleased to announce their partnership on a new coding campus in South Jackson. The campus, located at 3906 I-55 South Frontage Road, is convenient to potential coders from South Jackson, Hinds County, and the Jackson Metro area’s southern reaches. The downtown and South Jackson sites […]
Mississippi Coding Academies has been selected as one of the 10 Qualified Teams from four countries advance in the New Profit-sponsored competition, competing for a $1.5M grand prize; Teams competing in the next round will develop solutions to place participants into full-time jobs LOS ANGELES (March 8, 2021) — XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating […]
This past week, Mississippi Coding Academies (MCA) was thrilled to work with the Columbus Municipal School District (CMSD) and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) to open our first two remote classrooms for new coders under the TechShare program. TechShare, made possible by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and […]
MIT Solve has named the Mississippi Coding Academies (MCA) a finalist in its “Reimaging Pathways to Employment in the U.S.” challenge. As a finalist in this challenge, held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MCA will now present their solution directly to judges for final consideration. Called “The Enhanced Mississippi Model,” the solution proposed by […]
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